Stephenie Meyer

For a once-struggling mother of three, Stephenie Meyer literally had a dream come true. Inspired by a dream she had one night about a human girl falling in love with a vampire, the author wrote the 20...
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The blockbuster Twilight saga is to be revived in the form of short films and released on Facebook.com.
The fifth and final installment of the hit vampire franchise, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2, was released two years ago, but bosses at the Lionsgate studio have decided to resurrect the story online, according to The New York Times. Film executives have teamed up with bosses at Facebook to finance five mini-movies titled The Storytellers - New Creative Voices of The Twilight Saga, which will be based on the franchise's characters.
Five aspiring female directors will be chosen to helm the short films by a judging panel which includes series star Kristen Stewart, series author Stephenie Meyer, Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke and actresses Kate Winslet, Octavia Spencer and Julie Bowen. The films, which will not feature any of the original cast members, are slated to premiere on Facebook in 2015.

Stephen King, John Grisham and James Patterson are among 900 of the world's most famous authors who have waded into an ongoing publishing dispute with bosses at book retailer Amazon. Hundreds of writers, also including blockbuster novelists Lee Child, Philip Pullman and Suzanne Collins, have signed an open letter informing readers about the row and urging Amazon to bring the dispute to an end.
In the letter, the group accuses Amazon executives of using "unusual tactics" in a bid to push through a deal with publishing house Hachette, alleging they have been boycotting the company's authors, refusing to apply discounts to their books and slowing delivery of works by Hachette's writers to customers.
The letter reads, "As writers - most of us not published by Hachette - we feel strongly that no bookseller should block the sale of books or otherwise prevent or discourage customers from ordering or receiving the books they want. It is not right for Amazon to single out a group of authors, who are not involved in the dispute, for selective retaliation... Many of us have supported Amazon since it was a struggling start-up... We have made Amazon many millions of dollars and over the years... This is no way to treat a business partner. Nor is it the right way to treat your friends...
"We call on Amazon to resolve its dispute with Hachette without further hurting authors and without blocking or otherwise delaying the sale of books to its customers."
Hachette boasts some of the publishing industry's biggest names on its roster, including Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling and Stephenie Meyer, the writer behind the Twilight franchise.

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I think we can all agree that the last two episodes of Lost Girl have been a little lackluster. A bird Fae and a weird French flashback are not the best adventures for our favorite supernatural crew. Luckily, this week marks a return to the funny, frisky, and Fae-tastic (not quite Buffy-ish) fantasy. There’s an appearance by Krampus, who is a blend of Tim Allen’s character in The Santa Clause and the Robot Santa on Futurama. He punishes the naughty with death but is still a sweet old man. But quite horny... literally, with two ram horns.
This episode begins with Bo channeling her inner sorority girl by washing her car in the most gratuitously sexual way. After all, nothing gets the grime like water freshly fallen off boobs. Check your car manual, it’s true. As per usual, Lauren and Dyson hope desperately to be her number one. They are really starting to bond. Given the sexual fluidity of the show, could they end up hooking up?
The gang is celebrating Yule. It’s like Fae Christmas, only they celebrate by getting utterly smashed and the only present is not getting killed. The gang seems to be overcompensating to show Bo they appreciate her. And yet, they ignore her.
Bo &amp; Tamsin
Bo realizes she’s in a time loop because she keeps waking up in the car alone. At the party, a creepy Toad Fae with hallucinogenic sweat keeps hitting on her. She catches up with Bruce (Rob Archer), the best new character on the show by far. Tamsin plants a wet one on Bo and they realize they’re both Bill Murray in this scenario. They decide to enjoy a break from their usual brooding, until people start getting sucked into the 1970s wallpaper. It’s strange Bo isn’t defaulting to her instinct to run to Lauren, Dyson, or Kenzi. Instead she’s acting passive aggressive and wounded over the worry that they are ignoring her. This isn’t the self-assured, devil may care Bo we’ve grown to love. Tamsin gets sucked into a wall and Bo has to save her.
Kenzi &amp; Hale
Meanwhile, Hale is taking advantage of time loop because he’s nervous about his first time with Kenzi. Hale needs it because he really has no game. He puts the dread in double entendre. Kenzi finds out he’s been taking advantage of the time loop but luckily he makes amends. This does not bode well. This relationship with Kenzi is softening the hard-ass we’ve seen in prior seasons. Is Hale losing his edge?
Lauren, Dyson, &amp; Vex
Lauren shows Dyson a box she finds in the Dark Fae archives. It’s addressed to Bo and in her handwriting. They spend the entire party drunkenly fighting over who loves her the most to decide what to do with Bo’s box. Insert dirty jokes here. It is great to see Dyson and Lauren bonding because they love Bo but can’t really have a relationship with her. The only issue is this entire idea of their making decisions for Bo goes against her whole feminist superhero persona. It also seems like Bo would be super pissed to find out this debate even happened. All the same, drunk hijinks with Dyson, Lauren, and a corseted Vex are worth watching.
In Deep Krampus
With Tamsin in the clutches of Krampus, Bo and Hale are released from the time loop. Apparently, Krampus likes to trap yule fools in Groundhog Day to feed off their regrets. Who has more regrets than the now reformed Tamsin? Bo tracks down his lair, a candy factory in a gas station. Props to Krampus for taking advantage of rising gas prices. He is channeling Johnny Depp’s Willy Wonka because he’s creepy, colorful, and very off-putting. Bo sacrifices herself to save Tamsin. She’s released when she embraces her fear about The Wanderer. Suddenly, the needy, co-dependent Bo makes sense. Tamsin confesses that she was part of Bo getting kidnapped and that The Wanderer is hardcore Bo gets home to find out she’s not allowed at a Light Fae party after midnight. This seems weird because it’s her apartment. She ends up alone with the mysterious box. Inside, it has the same dark smoke that kidnapped her.
Succu-Best Lines of the Night
"Bitch, I am the naughty list." –Bo’s free advertising.
"Enough, Stephenie Meyer!" –Kenzi’s response to Trick’s storytelling
"My Kenzi sense is tingling... it’s probably just gas.' –Kenzi’s idea of pillow talk
'She’s a sasquatch. She’s probably eaten like a thousand kittens." –Tamsin describing a party guest.
"Let’s figure out what to do with this package... and settle the enigma of the most boring threesome ever once and for all." –Vex’s take on Lauren and Dyson
"You’re my grandubbus. My succudaughter." –Drunk Trick
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In the words of the blogger behind Reasoning With Vampires, "Before I had any right to dismiss Twihards or criticize the psychologically unhealthy relationship model that Bella Swan and Edward Cullen present, I felt obliged to read the books."
Language sentinels on the Internets are not new: it is somewhat text-based, after-all. The most hilarious thing about this particular blog, however, is the fight it pretends not to pick. While rushing headlong at the insidious syntax of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight cycle, it plunges its teeth into the franchise's jugular at the same time.
While the litany of critiques takes us through the most irksome thing about the series, the blog quietly pokes at Twilight's underbelly, unveiling the star-crossed lovers as dull, vain and downright specious. Tugging away at Meyer's pseudo-poetry reveals what lies beneath it: a politically retrograde morality tale, one that is totally bogus.
If you can't stomach the Twilight series, you will at least want to devour this literary critique of it.
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Markus Zusak didn’t expect for his 2006 novel The Book Thief to get published. Let alone become a New York Times #1 Bestseller. Let alone receive a major movie adaptation by 20th Century Fox that’s already getting Oscar buzz two months before its Nov. 15 release. “I thought no one would read it,” Zusak says. “I mean, how would someone describe it to their friends? ‘Well, it’s set in Nazi Germany. It’s narrated by Death. There’s a high body count. And it’s 580 pages long. You’ll love it!’”
Anyone who’s read The Book Thief — and it turns out many, many people have — knows it’s the staggeringly ambitious story of Liesel Meminger, a ten-year-old girl separated from her communist mother and forced to live with foster parents Hans and Rosa Hubermann in the small German town of Molching. The year is 1939. Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party control Germany and are about to begin marching across Europe. It’s appropriate, then, that the novel is narrated by Death. But this isn’t any skeletal Grim Reaper with sickle or scythe. He’s a wry, relatively good-natured chap with a job to do. Death shows us Liesel’s experiences leading up to and during World War II: how her foster father Hans teaches her how to read a book she stole, the way she settles in to life in Molching, interacts with other kids her own age, and helps hide the son of a Jewish man who fought alongside Hans in World War I in the cellar of her foster parents’ home, just as the full savagery of the Holocaust begins. What Zusak conjures is truly unique: a panoramic view of life in a German town during World War II, a Mrs. Miniver story set on the other side.
The Book Thief is the stuff of great drama, but let’s face it…most movie adaptations of novels about adolescent girls these days feature vampires, werewolves, and witches, not Nazis. “The Book Thief was always at the forefront of my mind,” producer Karen Rosenfelt says. “I really wanted to get this made even while I was working on other projects like Twilight.” Rosenfelt has produced some of the highest-grossing movies geared to young people in recent years, including all five of the movies based on Stephenie Meyer’s vampire saga. But The Book Thief became a true passion project for her and she wanted its movie adaptation to share two qualities of the book: authenticity and honesty.
Zusak’s book is incredibly detailed, and it’s easy to see why: his parents grew up in Germany during World War II before eventually emigrating to Australia. “The best research for the book was my whole childhood, really,” Zusak says. Oscar-winner Geoffrey Rush, who Rosenfelt tapped to play the loving Hans Hubermann, adds, “It’s such a personal story, because Markus developed the idea for The Book Thief from the stories his parents told him about living in Nazi Germany. So even though it seems like such a different world, there’s this level of detail he brings to it that makes it feel lived-in enough that anybody can relate to it.” Zusak’s parents also peppered their conversation with hyperlocal insults like the word “saumensch,” featured prominently in the book. In fact, Zusak even based Liesel’s personality in part on his mother’s. “I think it’s very fresh,” Rush says. “I wasn’t aware of the book when I was sent the screenplay, then read the book after having read the screenplay and thought [screenwriter] Michael Petroni did a really honorable transposition of it. It has such a whimsical, sardonic, poetic, existential sensibility…and it’s very blunt.”
So to match the book’s level of authenticity, Rosenfelt hired director Brian Percival, who’s worked on much of Downton Abbey, and insisted on shooting the movie in Germany. But there were still many challenges for the filmmakers to unpack. First, there was the matter of the book’s length. “It’s close to 600 pages, so it was tough to figure out what to leave on the cutting room floor,” Rosenfelt says. Among the things that have been changed from the book to the movie, Hans and Rosa are now childless. In the book, their son was a pretty fanatical Nazi. “One thing we couldn’t cut? Death’s voiceover,” Rosenfelt says. “We knew we wanted that from the start. But voiceover is a tricky thing. You never want too much of it or for it to take you out of the film. It should be seamless.” Producer Ken Blancato adds, “You shouldn’t be going ‘Wait, is that Morgan Freeman?’” The voice actor for Death still hasn’t been announced yet, but it’ll be the critical thread to link the many years of the story together.
There’s also the challenge of aging Sophie from a 10-year-old to a 17-year-old over the course of the movie. Thousands of girls auditioned for the role, but it was 13-year-old Canadian actress Sophie Nélisse (Monsieur Lazhar) who won out. The Book Thief makeup team then worked to shade her face in such a way to convey Sophie aging. “I wanted to go for the full Benjamin Button effect,” Nelisse jokes.
However, figuring out the basic challenges of adapting the book and casting one actress to inhabit Liesel as she grows from a child into a young woman was just the beginning in creating The Book Thief.
For part two of our behind-the-scenes look at The Book Thief, about how director Brian Percival, production designer Simon Elliott, and costume designer Anna B. Sheppard brought the world of the book to life, click here.
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Actor Max Irons infuriated his agent by turning down a lucrative role in a blockbuster franchise because he had already appeared in two teen-focused movies. The Brit, whose father is actor Jeremy Irons, got his big break starring opposite Amanda Seyfried in 2011's Red Riding Hood, a fantasy film by Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke.
He then played the romantic lead in the film version of Stephenie Meyer's novel The Host, but he subsequently turned down a big money role in a major franchise to avoid being typecast - much to the chagrin of his agent.
He tells Britain's The Times newspaper, "I was asked to audition for another franchise recently. It was a very similar role to ones I've played before, and I said to my agent: 'I can't do this.' And they said: 'Don't get all precious now, because this one will boost you right to the top of the pecking order and there'll be another zero at the end of all your pay cheques.' And I said, 'The problem is, if I were to do it, I would want to quit.' It's just not fulfilling'."
Irons is currently shooting Posh, the big screen adaptation of a play about an upper-class boys club at Britain's prestigious Oxford University, and he is convinced choosing thought-provoking roles will ensure career longevity.
He adds, "Something like Posh might actually make a difference to the way people think about things. That's much more exciting. But if you play the six-pack game, there are 100 people behind you who look the same and can do the same, waiting to take your place."

Twilight author Stephenie Meyer is convinced movie critics torpedoed her sci-fi film The Host to "punish" her for inflicting the teen vampire series on the world. Meyer wrote The Host in the aftermath of her huge success with her Twilight books, and it became a movie starring Saoirse Ronan, which the writer also produced.
However, the movie failed to emulate the box office glory of the hugely popular Twilight franchise following its release in March (13), taking $48 million (£32 million) internationally, a fraction of the first vampire film's $393 million (£262 million) total in 2008.
Meyer believes The Host's negative reviews impacted its box office takings, and she is adamant critics only trashed the film to get back at her for the success of Twilight.
She tells USA Today, "The sad thing is The Host got punished for Twilight. There was such a stigma from Twilight. And because I had done The Host, it got trashed in the reviews. We got kicked around for Twilight. The reviews are not reflective of the film itself. You could write whatever trash you wanted to write about Twilight, it could take it. So I kind of felt sad, I felt like the poor little Host was being picked on... People are going onto iTunes and asking, 'Why are the reviews of the movie so bad, the movie is really good.'"
In another interview with Variety.com, Meyer goes on to admit she is determined to move away from her popular vampire creation, adding, "I get further away every day. I am so over it. For me, it's not a happy place to be."

Kristen Stewart missed out on a role in Twilight author Stephenie Meyer's new film Austenland over fears audiences could only imagine the actress as her character from vampire franchise. Meyer worked as a producer on the big screen adaptation of Shannon Hale's novel, about a woman obsessed with a TV retelling of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, but she avoided the temptation to recast Twilight actress Stewart.
The author tells WENN, "It's tempting sometimes when you know what people can do... Sure, I would love to work with Kristen Stewart. She's super talented, but if she plays a character, people are going to see (Twilight character) Bella."

The cast of FX's The Americans has officially been Jane Austen-fied. First, Matthew Rhys was cast as Mr. Darcy in Death Comes to Pemberley, BBC's three-part miniseries based on the P.D. James sequel to Austen's Pride And Prejudice. Now, Keri Russell stars in Austenland as a woman obsessed with Mr. Darcy who travels to look for love in Austenland, a British resort that recreates the Austen era.
JJ Feild, Jane Seymour, Bret McKenzie, Jennifer Coolidge, Georgia King and James Callis costar in the directorial debut of Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre co-writer Jerusha Hess, adapted from the like-titled novel by Shannon Hale. The film, which premiered at Sundance in January, also marks Twilight author Stephenie Meyer's first independent producing venture.
For an English novelist who died in the early 1800s, Hollywood can't seem to get enough of Jane Austen. From multiple adaptations of Pride and Prejudice (how many Mr. Darcys can there possibly be?), to Sense and Sensibility and Emma... heck, the author's personal life has even been romanticized for the screen (see: Anne Hathaway in Becoming Jane). Watch the trailer for the latest tribute to Austen, then open its pages on August 16.
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Just because Twilight is (finally) over doesn't mean that vampires movies are a thing of the past. But hopefully Neil Jordan's upcoming Byzantium will be far better than Stephenie Meyer's sparkly vamps!
Starring Gemma Arterton (Quantum of Solace) and Saoirse Ronan (Hanna), Byzantium follows a mother and daughter as they try to get by without giving away their bloodsucking heritage. Along the way, their history is unraveled and a young romance emerges — will that be the ultimate downfall of these crafty vamps?
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Byzantium hits theaters June 28, 2013.
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Made producing debut with feature based on her novel Breaking Dawn titled "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1"; film directed by Bill Condon

Published third novel in vampire saga Eclipse

Released Eclipse companion novella The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner

Released second novel in series New Moon

Published fourth and final book in series Breaking Dawn

Third novel in Twilight series adapted into feature, "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse"

Published popular vampire romance novel Twilight

Sci-fi romance "The Host" adapted into feature film based on her novel

Wrote novel that inspired film sequel "The Twilight Saga: New Moon"

Returned as producer for "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2"

Saw bestselling novel Twilight adapted into successful feature film starring Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart; made cameo as a diner customer

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For a once-struggling mother of three, Stephenie Meyer literally had a dream come true. Inspired by a dream she had one night about a human girl falling in love with a vampire, the author wrote the 2005 novel <i>Twilight</i>, which earned monumental success for its relatable characters, dangerous and exciting plot line, and a dashing vampire named Edward Cullen. The star-crossed lovers of <i>Twilight</i> struck a chord with millions of young adult readers while Meyer's success resonated with mothers everywhere. The author wrote three more books in the saga - the heartbreaking <i>New Moon</i>, the action-packed <i>Eclipse</i>, and <i>Breaking Dawn</i>, a novel that completed the series with pages and pages full of romance, plot twists, and even the birth of a vampire. Feature film versions of Meyer's work breathed new life into her novels and turned its star Robert Pattinson into a wanted leading man. Often compared to another successful mother-turned-author J.K. Rowling, Meyer's <i>Twilight</i> saga may have been the product of a dream, but her ability to capture readers worldwide with her writing made her one of the most celebrated authors of all time.<p>Stephenie Morgan was born on Dec. 24, 1973 in Hartford, CT to Stephen and Candy Morgan. The unusual spelling of her name came from her dad's name with an "ie" at the end. She grew up in Arizona with her five siblings Seth, Emily, Jacob, Paul and Heidi. After attending Chaparral High School in Scottsdale, where she received a National Merit Scholarship, the future author attended Brigham Young University in Provo, UT, graduating with an English degree. She met her husband Christian "Pancho" Meyer while growing up in Arizona. The couple wed in 1994 and had three children.<p>With a growing family to support, Meyer sought to write Young Adult fiction for a living. It was not until 2003, however, when she found inspiration for a novel. On a June night that year, Meyer dreamed of a girl who falls in love with a vampire; one who also happened to thirsty for her blood. The author immediately put her dream onto paper and often wrote late at night while her kids were asleep. What unfolded in the span of three months was literary magic. Meyer wrote a novel titled <i>Twilight</i>, inspired by the supernatural love story she imagined in her sleep (the dream ended up in Chapter 13 of the novel). <i>Twilight</i> was narrated by a clumsy and shy teen named Bella Swan who moves to the small and dreary town of Forks, WA where she meets a brooding, pale-faced, handsome young man in her high school named Edward Cullen. <i>Twilight</i> explored the complex relationship between the two main characters - from Bella's discovery of Edward's immortality to the impending danger of a human falling in love with a vampire. Meyer later told MTV the allure of the vampire was that they are "scary and sexy at the same time."<p><i>Twilight</i> was released in 2005 after Meyer signed a three-book deal with Little, Brown and Company. The novel was a hit, debuting at No. 5 on <i>The New York Times</i> bestseller list and eventually selling 42 million copies worldwide. Amazon.com gave <i>Twilight</i> the honor of "Best Book of the Decade So Far." Fans could not get enough of Bella and Edward's story and wanted more. In 2006, Meyer released <i>New Moon,</i> the second book in the saga. The author said music played a huge part in her novels, with her Muse and Linkin Park albums providing the soundtrack whenever she wrote. <i>New Moon</i> took on a much darker tone than its predecessor. The novel began with Edward leaving Bella in order to protect her from his bloodthirsty lifestyle. A majority of <i>New Moon</i> centered on the heroine's friendship with Jacob Black, a strapping and loyal young man who, in true Meyer fashion, ended up transforming into a werewolf. The second book in the saga planted the seeds of the love triangle between Bella and her two suitors - one a vampire; the other a werewolf. By the time the third novel <i>Eclipse</i> was released in 2007, Meyer's first three books in the <i>Twilight</i> saga had spent a combined 143 weeks on <i>The New York Times</i> bestseller list.<p>There was much speculation on how the author would wrap up the <i>Twilight</i> saga. The novels even had a very dedicated fan base; those who nicknamed themselves "Twi-hards." Meyer's background as a stay-at-home mother of three with worldwide success had fellow mothers supporting her and her work. Fans called "Twi-moms" created buzz for Meyer and her novels, which the group deemed an appropriate and entertaining read for their teenagers and themselves. Meyer knew she had a lot of questions to answer and loose ends to tie up when she began writing <i>Breaking Dawn</i>, the fourth novel in the series. Released in 2008, <i>Breaking Dawn</i> centered around a married Bella and Edward having a half human/half vampire daughter while the fate of both mother and child are threatened by a powerful vampire coven called the Volturi. The werewolf story was not left out as half of the novel was narrated by Jacob. <i>Breaking Dawn</i> sold over 1.3 million copies its first day and won Meyer a British Book Award, beating out Rowling's <i>The Tales of Beedle the Bard</i>. <p><i>Breaking Dawn</i> was bittersweet for fans as Meyer declared it was the last novel told from Bella's point of view. The author wrote a companion novel to <i>Twilight</i> titled <i>Midnight Sun</i>, which was the first book told through Edward's point of view. A draft of the book was leaked online, prompting Meyer to postpone its release. In an effort to prevent further piracy, Meyer herself posted the first 12 chapters on her official website and declared she was putting <i>Midnight Sun</i> on hold indefinitely. Instead, she released a novel titled <i>The Host</i> in May 2008, her first non-<i>Twilight</i> project. <i>The Host</i>, about an alien that inhabits the body of a young woman, debuted at No. 1 on <i>The New York Times</i> and <i>Wall Street Journal</i> bestseller lists.<p>In 2008, <i>USA Today</i> named Meyer "Author of the Year." She also saw her first novel adapted to the big screen as a feature film directed by Catherine Hardwicke. The movie "Twilight" starred Pattinson as Edward, Kristen Stewart as Bella, and Taylor Lautner as Jacob. Meyer made a cameo in the film as a local woman eating at the same diner as Bella and her father. Fans lined up at midnight on Nov. 21, 2008 to be the first to watch "Twilight." As expected, the film was a monster hit at the box office, earning $70 million its opening weekend. The film's young stars also became household names. Pattinson and Lautner became heartthrobs overnight, while rumors of a real-life romance between "Twilight" lovebirds Pattinson and Stewart made headlines in magazines and on entertainment blogs. The "Twilight" cast reunited in 2009 for "New Moon," the second film in the series, directed by Chris Weitz. That same year, Meyer starred in a <i>Female Force</i> comic book written by Ryan Burton and drawn by Dave MacNeil. The comic series highlighted prominent women in media, politics and pop culture. Former subjects included Hillary Clinton, Oprah Winfrey and Michelle Obama.<p>The third offering in the cinematic adaptations of Meyer's best-selling novels came with "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse" (2010), which found Bella fast approaching high school graduation and forced to choose between Edward and Jacob, while a string of murders plague Seattle. Despite mixed reviews, the David Slade-helmed "Eclipse" went on to become the highest-grossing movie in the series up to that point. Taking a page from the "Harry Potter" films, the final entry in the franchise was divided into two separate films, with "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn: Part 1" (2011) and "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn: Part 2" (2012) being released over a two-year period. Taken over by director Bill Condon, the films were shot simultaneously during the early months of 2011. Future film projects for Meyer included a possible filming of her non-<i>Twilight</i> novel, <i>The Host</i>, a science fiction tale about alien beings who attempt to conquer earth by inhabiting the bodies and minds of humans.